@goingnuts -- go for it! Anything that can substitute for Flash Player (more or less) and work on the CPi meets my needs

VLC with no gui is only about 2.5mb, and can play youtube stuff, if it's compiled with lua support (lua doesnt need to be installed once its compiled as far as i can tell..) ... and old VLC, like 0.8.6, compiled with lua and without qt gui might be a solution too... (and there's vlc-gtk as a frontend for it too)..._________________Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search

I could not get VLC running, nor gnash and although flasm decompress the swf ffplay/mplayer wont play...

Some scripts out there for mplayer but that seems to be based on youtube serving flv-format in the past.

I followed technosaurus idea here and got a working draft based on ffplay and a gtkdialog1 script. Video is working (some gives "Protocol not supported" though...) but I cant get sound out of the thing. Guess its a ffplay compile thing - maybe.
I do not use youtube enough to spend days fine tunning the thing so just drop the draft here for better minds or times...

I could not get VLC running, nor gnash and although flasm decompress the swf ffplay/mplayer wont play...

Some scripts out there for mplayer but that seems to be based on youtube serving flv-format in the past.

I followed technosaurus idea here and got a working draft based on ffplay and a gtkdialog1 script. Video is working (some gives "Protocol not supported" though...) but I cant get sound out of the thing. Guess its a ffplay compile thing - maybe.

Re: "Protocol not supported": try youtube-dl, make sure you have librtmp/rtmpdump compiled with an SSL library...

Re: no sound:
strace ffplay <somefile.wav> 2>&1 >/dev/null |grep /dev
If it plays, try with an mp3/mp4 file you know has audio.

Note the order of redirection in the example above! Reverse it, and it's silent. But this way, stdout is silenced and stderr becomes stdout.

Maybe another app could take care of the sound - although this adds to the complexity - any youtube audio-only players out there?

Older Puppy kernels have a static /dev/snd/ directory .
Just looked into it by loopmounting a pup-430.sfs but /dev/sound and /dev/dsp are not in /dev/snd/ .
/dev/dsp is in /dev/ .
Probably make a symlink /dev/sound/ -> /dev/snd/ .

I have been wanting to try PeasyMP3 on pUPnGO2012 (just because I like tinkering and I like the "Carousel" drag n' drop randomiser...) and if I try to run it in a terminal I get an error message something like "-f" is an illegal operation.

If I remove the several instances of "-f" parameter from the programme (eg in the line: "export -f PAUSE") I do not get any further errors, but the programme obviously doesn't do anything productive either.

My uneducated guess is this is an issue with gtk version. Can anyone suggest a way around it? (or is this just a stupid thing to try...)

greengeek: There is no bash in pupngo. I posted a static bash version in the old pupngo thread. But that wont get the PeasyMP3 running in pupngo alone. The gtkdialog version is GTK1.2 and over a year old so it wont accept much newer gtkdialog syntax. A rewrite is only way out...

technosaurus: The new implementation of the startup commands using only jwm if quite nice!
For GTK functions I fully agree on the sourcing of functions principle - and keep the gtk-GUI stuff as simple as possible using the sourced functions.

A shell only version of wait4x that works for the common case to minimize the time waiting for the desktop._________________Check out my github repositories. I may eventually get around to updating my blogspot.

In case anyone is interested, I wrote my own compiler independent partial c library for compiling smaller/faster _static_ apps:
Technically its not a "library" as it is built as a single header file called libc.h and has very minimal overhead (~500b)

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